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The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf
The Wise Virgins – Leonard Woolf 4 out of 5 stars Reading only one Persephone book during Persephone Week isn’t any kind of achievement, I guess, but nevertheless I’m glad I get the chance to...
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Consequences by E.M. Delafield
Consequences – E.M. Delafield Persephone Books, 2000 (originally published 1919) Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Probably best known for her Diary of a Provincial Lady, in Consequences E.M. Delafield...
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No Surrender by Constance Maud
No Surrender – Constance Maud Persephone Books, October 2011 When Persephone Books contacted me if I was interested in reviewing two of their new releases, I could not believe my luck. Unfortunately,...
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Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple // Persephone Books 2011 (Fist published 1932) Greenbanks is only the second title by Whipple that I have read. Previously this year I read High Wages, which I loved. My...
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Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes Persephone Books, 2008 In Good Evening, Mrs. Craven, twenty-one of Mollie Panter-Downes stories about life in the United Kingdom...
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Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
Harriet – Elizabeth Jenkins Persephone Books, April 2012 Originally published 1934 Review copy from the publisher Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Harriet is a novel written by Eizabeth Jenkins. Most...
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The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal
The Exiles Return – Elisabeth de Waal Persephone Books, March 2013 Review copy from the publisher Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * In The Exiles Return, Elisabeth de Waal, Edmund de Waal’s grandmother,...
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Recent Reads: Books that I loved
I am now on maternity leave, finally. I would have expected my reading time to expand, but that has been strangely disappointing. At the same time that I went on leave, major pregnancy insomnia hit....
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Persephone’s “A Book a Month”
Persephones! At the beginning of this year I treated myself to a 12-month subscription to Persephone Books. Two weeks later I had forgotten which books I had picked out to be delivered to my doorstep....
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